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‘Rust in peace’: why are Germany’s bridges and schools falling apart?

Problems caused by underinvestment are being seized on by the far right as evidence of ‘state failure’

Waiting for the M49 bus to the zoo, Wolfgang, 82, peers down at the crumpled concrete and metal rubble below, the remains of a Berlin bridge recently demolished after wide cracks were discovered.

Over the loud pounding of a hydraulic hammer crushing the concrete, the retired technician says he watched its construction about 60 years earlier from the window of his nearby flat. “Now we have to hope they’ll get their act together to build a new one, though I have my doubts I’ll be alive to see it finished,” he says.

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